Visualizing landscape architecture : functions, concepts, strategies /

"We don't sell gardens--we sell images of gardens." This observation on the part of a landscape architect makes it clear just how important it is that a design be effectively communicated to the community, clients, and the public. Drawings, models, simulations, and films communicate t...

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Main Author: Mertens, Elke
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2010.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Conveying Ideas and Planning Aims in Plans and Images
  • Presentation Methodsin the Past
  • Finding Ideas and Forms
  • Finding Ideas and Forms By Drawing
  • Finding Ideas and Forms By Modelmaking
  • Part 1 Functions
  • Functions Plane
  • Two-Dimensional Presentations: Possibilities and Limitations
  • Functions Space
  • Presentation of Living Spaces
  • Functions Time
  • Time As the Fourth Dimension
  • Part 2 Concepts
  • Concepts Planning Process
  • Visual Presentations Over the Course of the Planning Process
  • Concepts Competitions
  • Visual Presentations for Competitions
  • Part 3 Strategies
  • Strategies Landscape Planning
  • Urbanization: a Challenge for Sustainable Landscape Planning
  • Strategies Climate Change
  • Planning With Climate Change
  • Strategies Scenarios
  • Scenarios As a Basis for Guiding and Designing the Growth of Major Cities
  • Appendix
  • Illustration Credits
  • Film Credits
  • About the Author
  • Subject Index on Visualizat Ion in Landscape Architecture
  • Index of Practices Andprojects
  • Bibliography.